a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated | the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause |
the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech | the subjective sensation of hearing something |
the ability to speak | the audible part of a transmitted signal |
the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
expressing in coherent verbal form | the sudden occurrence of an audible event |
the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music | a large ocean inlet or deep bay |
something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression | a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water |
A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced. | mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium |
a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance | |
an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | |
(metonymy) a singer | |
(linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes | |